K22MBSRS OF BOARD MD BUTIE3 
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The Board of Game Commissioners has always been a se¬ 
lect body of sportsmen of the highest type. The present Board 
consists of six experienced, successful, business and profes¬ 
sional men who have had a varied experience ih all sorts of 
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sportsmanship in various parts of the United States, and a num¬ 
ber of them in foreign countries. The Members of the Game Com- 
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mission do not now and never have received a single cdnt Of re¬ 
muneration for their, time and expenses, althoUgh on many occa¬ 
sions Members have traveled half-way acrosd the Continent at 
their own expense to attend'Board meetings* In addition they 
have spent large sums of money out of their own resources to 
further the cause they represent. 
The Board of Game Commissioners is not a supervisory 
b od y,, but an Executive Board, and are the sole governing power 
of. the Department . The personnel of the present Board is the 
equal of, and I believe superior to, any other Board in Pennsyl¬ 
vania- the collective judgment of such a Board is of inestimable 
value to the cause of wild life conservation in Pennsylvania. 
The services of none of the present Members could be secured for 
any pecuniary consideration to do the work they are now doing 
gratis. until recently Pennsylvania had the only organization 
of this kind in the united ’States in charge of game and wild 
bird protection,.-but a number of states are now adopting our 
plan of organisation and their methods. in a number of other 
States, officials in charge of wild life conservation are not 
appointed by the same method or controlled by the same motives 
that govern in Pennsylvania, and the results are frequently Very 
unsatisfactory. 
The G&me Commission has been successful in gradually 
moulding public sentiment in favor of la?; observance, feeding 
of wild life, etc., and instead of our field officers being re- 
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garded as imposters in all parts of the state as they were in 
the beginning, they are now respected and their work thoroughly 
appreciated* 
TERM OP SERVICE 
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Under the present la?;, Members of the Board are appoint 
ed for a period of three years, which period, in the opinion 
of most sportsmen, is entirely too short. The appointments of 
two Members expire each year, and since wild life conservation 
is not a matter of three, five, or even ten years, the terms f or 
Members of the Board should, in my judgment,. be materially in- 
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creased so as to guarantee a continuity of po licy . 
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